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I read that you replaced your alternator and I wanted to ask you if you think the quality of the valeo alternator from O Reilley is bad. I had my oem alt go bad with 84K miles, then replaced it with the O'Reilley part with lifetime warranty. I fried the firt one in 5 minutes because I reved up to charge the battery. They gave me a new one free of charge, replaced it last week. I drove all week on it and it was fine but battery light came on again today and the car was running off the battery again and the voltage was down to 11.3. I'm thinking these remanufactured alternators are crap. Thanks for your help.

Hey what's up man? Did you change your username? I kept trying to find you under SIKHKD - LOL.
It's me "Mike" with the 330i sedan (Steel-Grey). Remember - the guy with the best looking / cleanest 330i sedan out there - LOL.

I just traded her in last week and got a 2007 BMW 335i w/ 6sp manual - fully loaded with nav and iDrive last week :)